A historian looks back the calculus as algebra and selected writings /
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[Washington, D.C.] :
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c2010.
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| 300 | |a xv, 287 p. : |b ill. | ||
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| 500 | |a "Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990"--P. facing t.p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The calculus as algebra -- |t The mathematician, the historian, and the history of mathematics -- |t Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus -- |t The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass -- |t The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought -- |t Descartes and problem-solving -- |t The calculus as algebra, the calculus as geometry: Lagrange, Maclaurin, and their legacy -- |t Was Newton's calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions -- |t Newton, Maclaurin, and the authority of mathematics -- |t Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? dispelling myths while promoting maths -- |t Why did Lagrange "prove" the parallel postulate?. |
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